“Nobody could touch us with weaponry. We were the bully on the block,” he told KNX 1070’s Ed Mertz.

Moss, now 80, tears up easily talking while speaking of the Iowa and those who have served.

“There’s not many of us left anymore,” he said.

Saturday’s event marked an emotional homecoming for many. Some shared photos while many just listened to stories.

“It’s an understanding that if you put on the uniform, you can look that guy in the eye and just understand the sacrifice that he made,” Greg Van Riper of the U.S. Navy told CBS2’s Joy Benedict. “And he can understand the sacrifice that I’m making.”

Admission fees on the ship are being waived through Monday in observance of Veterans Day.